At 'Motorola U,' School Leaders Learn Corporate Lessons
In a windowless conference room at a Holiday Inn here, Nick Osborne asks whether public education has lost "market share." It's the first session of a four-day leadership-training program run by Motorola Inc., and his audience of 15 school leaders from East Texas nods.
The group of principals and top local and district staff members recognizes right away what he means: Private schools, home schooling, and charter schools are attracting students at regular public schools' expense. "Yup," he says, with an air of finality, "big time. Big time."
Mr. Osborne is normally the superintendent of the 1,900-student Mount Vernon, Ill., city district. At last month's training session, though, his job was to show school leaders how...
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